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Geotech Geol Eng (2011) 29:845–854 DOI 10.1007/s10706-011-9421-1 ORIGINAL PAPER Earthquake-Induced Deformation Analysis of a Bridge Approach Embankment in Missouri W. Liu • R. Luna • R. W. Stephenson • S. Wang Received: 24 September 2009 / Accepted: 3 June 2011 / Published online: 17 June 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Abstract Earthquake-induced deformations for a 1 Introduction bridge approach earth embankment are predicted using a calibrated numerical model. The constitutive Quantifying earthquake-induced deformations is one soil model is a modified hyperbolic model that uses of the biggest challenges in geotechnical earthquake Masing rules and incremental pore pressure relations. engineering, especially when the foundation soils The model was calibrated using both laboratory and may liquefy. There are a number of methods to field data. A shaking table physical model was used analyze the seismic stability of slopes that include to verify the numerical simulation. Additionally, the both limit equilibrium and deformation analysis, but upper San Fernando dam was modeled to reproduce the deformations during earthquakes are more diffi- the deformations in the 1971 earthquake. The cult to calculate. Newmark ( 1965) first modeled the subsurface and embankment soil conditions were soil displacement under cyclic loading as a rigid characterized using field and laboratory methods. The block translating on an inclined plane. Makdisi and model developed was used to predict the earthquake- Seed (1978) extended Newmark’s approach to induced deformations of an approach embankment to include the structural response of moderately high Bridge A1466 in the NM